SPELLING Success

AUTHOR(S)

Sinclair, Ken

PUB. DATE

January 2004

SOURCE

Engineered Systems;Jan2004, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p40

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses the initiatives and views about the two acronyms, XML and oBIX, in relation to heating and ventilation industry (HVAC). Adoptation of XML and Web services in information technology industry; Importance of oBIX; Impact of XML and oBIX in HVAC.

This article reports that the subject of XML has been one of the hottest topics in the building systems arena in the past couple of years. The XML Symposium at the AHR Expo/ASHRAE Winter meeting in Orlando on February 9 will focus on communicating how this technology will affect the HVAC...

Focuses on the use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) in the piping, heating and air conditioning engineering. Background on XML; Use of XML and Web Services for information exchange; Discussion of several XML and Web Services problems and their solutions.

The article reports that ASHRAE took a significant step toward giving them Web services by proposing an addendum to the BACnet specification that would add Web services to the BACnet toolkit. Webopedia defines Web services as a standardized way of integrating web-based applications using the...

This article focuses on model-based data engineering for Web services. In particular the article discusses its application in the military operations domain. Data management is the main intellectual process in the data engineering chain. It identifies and describes data elements, and maps...

A growing problem facing information technology (IT) managers is how to integrate wireless applications and the wide variety of mobile devices into corporate systems. Web services technology could provide a way of doing this without blowing the IT budget on complex and costly integration...

Technically the spatial non-interoperability problem associated with current geospatial processing systems can be categorized as data and access non-interoperability. In GIS community, Open GIS Consortium (OGC) geospatial Web services have been introduced to overcome spatial non-interoperability...

The article focuses on the roundtable conversation convened last month by the journal "eWeek" Labs to assess the current status and direction of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOAs). Several roundtable participants agreed that customer sophistication has greatly increased in terms of...

The article reports on the plan of loyalty scheme operator AirMiles Travel Co. to improve its information technology program following the success of the restructuring of its Web operation. Since reconstructing its Web site, the percentage of customers using its online channel has increased to...